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Electrum Installation

Explore various methods to install Electrum on your system, including using emerge on Gentoo or Python3 (portable/pip) options. Choose the installation method that suits your preferences and follow the detailed steps provided below.

echo "net-misc/electrum cli ncurses qt5 qrcode" > /etc/portage/package.use/electrum
emerge --ask electrum dev-libs/libsecp256k1-0.1_pre20201028

wget https://download.electrum.org/4.3.2/Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz
wget https://download.electrum.org/4.3.2/Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz.asc
gpg --verify Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz.asc
tar -xvf Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz
python3 Electrum-4.3.2/run_electrum

wget https://download.electrum.org/4.3.2/Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz
wget https://download.electrum.org/4.3.2/Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz.asc
gpg --verify Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz.asc
tar -xvf Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz
python3 Electrum-4.3.2/run_electrum
python3 -m pip install --user Electrum-4.3.2.tar.gz